This World of Ours

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 36, 17 February 1939, Page 2

This World of Ours

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ro When Augustus John Really does stick it on His price is within about 4d, Of Orpen’ Ss. & % $ Message To Girl-Readers THE modern girl should throw -" herself heart and soul into this Fitness movement, says little "Lucey Byesbright in a special message to the ‘‘Record’s’’ girl readers. Lucy Eyesbright says that the modern girl must keep herself in trim so that she can get the best out of life and no regrets. It’s all very well, says Luey Eyesbright, but a girl can’t expect to stand up to the

daily grind of five o’elocks and the movies in the evening and then a turn on the cabaret floor at night.unless she gets herself into good training and keeps in good training, can she? ‘"What we must aim at,’’ says Luey- Eyesbright, ‘‘is to make ourselves as hardy as our Nordie sisters have done by the ‘Strength Through Joy’ movement in Berlin’’-where motorists are beginning to complain that every time they hit a Fitness blonde at a crossing they buckle up their mudguards and have to get new bumpers in the bargain. & % Pe WANTING his Fuebrer to pronounce a2 decree against women smoking is Nazi Jew-baiter number one, bald-headed, paunchy Julius Streicher, Says the whipcarrying boss of Nuremberg: "A woman who smokes destroys her soul as well as her body, but we must use tact in getting our

women to break the tobacco habit.’’ Addressing a thousand fully qualified medical officers, Streicher informed them thai ‘Women who smoke cannot have 80 many or such healthy children as those who do not." te se % Craze for RECEN F picture of Fama Sharman, said to be the ideal television girl, being made up for a television broadcast from London, has set some of our local younger marrieds looking’ hopefully at the little ones in the pram, and only last week we heard an ambitious woman crooning to her baby girl, ""Some day, my precious, you may be New Zealand’s first television girl.’’ Asked to comment, NBS offieials laughingly said: ‘‘You know what mothers are, always wanting everything for their ehildren at once. Of course, it’s just possible we may start television in this country in the ehild’s lifetime, but really it’s much more likely that our first television girl will be among the following generation yet unborn. No good ever comes of rushing things,’’ said this chap gaily, then going into a curious half-hour tranee which turned out to be standing by for the eight o’clock chimes. % + Scund at Heart ; IG things are happening in the darts world. Leading officials of the National Darts Association may hold a conference during which questions concerning nearly a million ‘players will be discussed. The formation of country associations is coming. Hveryone is playing darts-Cable item. Interviewed specially for this page, Colonel Blazes, a pastpresident of the Darts Association, said it all went to back up Sir Samuel Hoare’s recent statement that those who thought ‘Britain and.the.. Empire were

y on the wane had another think coming. The boys were every bit as keen on archery and darts as they had been in the days King Harold got his Blighty at the Battle of Hastings. There was good stuff in the Old Country yet. Asked to comment, Cousin Wildflower said: ‘‘You will notice that the game has spread to all classes. Of course, the backbone of England, scattered throughout the various inns, has always been keen on the game, but it is only recently that the Bright Young Things have taken it up. "They went in for tt seriously a few months ago when

Reggie (‘‘Highball’’) SplittFeathers fixed stout Lady Portcullis, a rather fussy hostess, who thought her guests ought to go home at only 4 a.m. "This hostess, the Portcullis woman,’’ said Cousin Wildflower, ‘‘had been making a preity big nuisance of herself, and young Splitt-Feathers with great daring simply drew a dart from his pocket and pinned her by the right eur to the wall, where she steyed until the butler found her five hours later, the butler first giving her a good dusting under the pardonable impression that she was rather a decent bit of old statuary dug up and planted there unknown,"’